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True to its credo of Serbisyong Totoo, GMA Kapuso Foundation, the socio-civic arm of GMA Network, quickly responded to the call for disaster relief in the wake of typhoon Glenda. In its ongoing nationwide relief efforts, the Kapuso Foundation has since served over 15,800 victims within two days after the storm entered PAR.

Kapuso Foundation continues to provide aid for typhoon Glenda victims

July 18 2014

True to its credo of Serbisyong Totoo, GMA Kapuso Foundation, the socio-civic arm of GMA Network, quickly responded to the call for disaster relief in the wake of typhoon Glenda.

In its ongoing nationwide relief efforts, the Kapuso Foundation has since served over 15,800 victims within two days after the storm entered PAR.

On July 14, a day prior typhoon Glenda entered PAR, the Foundation dispatched its initial team towards the province of Albay. By July 15, hours before typhoon Glenda’s landfall, relief operations have begun with the distribution of relief goods to individuals in evacuations sites in the area of Pulangi in Albay. A total of 4,000 individuals have been served. On the day typhoon Glenda crossed southern Luzon and South of Metro Manila, 550 people were served by the Foundation’s soup kitchen in Bulelak Gym, Malanday, Marikina and an additional 250 individuals in Bangkulasi, Navotas were served with hot soups and relief goods for 100 families. By nightfall close to 4,000 residents of Orion in Bataan who were evacuated into different sites were given relief goods and clothes by another Kapuso team dispatched in the area.

Large-scale relief operations were also carried out in Atimonan, Quezon, another of the hardest hit area, serving at least 7,000 individuals. The Foundation’s disaster relief operations will be abetted with planned medical missions in the provinces of Quezon and Bicol, two of the identified hardest hit provinces by typhoon Glenda.

GMA Kapuso Foundation continues to accept donations in the form of rice, noodles, canned goods, ready-to-eat food packs, and blankets at the GMA Kapuso Foundation Office, GMA Network Drive cor. Samar st., Diliman, Quezon City or at the GMA Kapuso Foundation warehouse, 366 GMA Compound, Tandang Sora Avenue, Barangay Culiat, Quezon City from Monday to Friday, 9:00 am until 6:00 pm.

Cash donations may also be deposited without service fee deduction to peso and dollar savings accounts of Kapuso Foundation in all branches of Metrobank, UCPB, PNB and Cebuana Lhuillier. All donations are tax-deductible. For more information, please log on to www.gmanetwork.com/kapusofoundation.

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